Pursuit in freeway traffic ends in arrest

CARLSBAD  A motorist tried to outrace Carlsbad police by speeding down Interstate 5 on the shoulder Tuesday morning, but he lost a tire, ditched the car and was arrested,

The pursuit started shortly after 7 a.m., after an officer pulled over the driver on Carlsbad Village Drive near the southbound freeway off-ramp for a traffic violation, Carlsbad police Lt, Kelly Cain said.

The driver, identified as Daniel Wilder McGrath, 25, initially stopped and handed his license to the officer. But when the officer went to his patrol car to run a computer check on the license, McGrath sped off, Cain said.